Reports Of People Voting Twice At Brevard County Precinct
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In Brevard County, there were reports of some people voting twice on Tuesday. After the blunder, which allowed some people to vote twice, there is some concern about whether any of the votes at the Cape Canaveral Library precinct will be counted.
John Jacobs started pointing out something special about the first hours of voting in Cape Canaveral. He expected an orderly election, but that's not what he found."It's chaos. It's disorganized. The phone lines are busy and they can't get through. No one is in charge there," says Jacobs.Geoff Duggan was caught in the midst of it.
"About the time I was filling out my ballot, somebody was making a commotion about one person having two ballots," Duggan says.The precinct clerk says it started with confusion over two different ballots, one with an annexation issue on it and one without. When some voters discovered they had the wrong one, they were given a second and allowed to cast both.The supervisor of elections says a trained precinct clerk simply wasn't thinking."You always hope for a perfect election; I was too. But right now I've got a couple of bubbles I've got to work on," says Brevard County elections supervisor Fred Galey.Galey is waiting for lawyers with the state Department of Elections to determine what he should do with all the hundreds of other votes cast there, since there is no way of telling any apart.The supervisor of elections says, at this point, he doesn't think any of these votes will be tossed out, but he says nothing is definite.
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